[HN Gopher] Fun with Linedrawing: The GCE/Milton-Bradley Vectrex...
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Fun with Linedrawing: The GCE/Milton-Bradley Vectrex and the PiTrex
Author : zdw
Score : 19 points
Date : 2021-12-04 05:25 UTC (2 days ago)
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| gssf wrote:
| Wow, this was awesome. I remember these in Toys R Us when growing
| up and how amazing they looked.
| wrs wrote:
| When I learned computer graphics in 1983, the textbook was about
| half vector graphics. The state of the art was hardware "display
| lists" that you loaded with X,Y coordinates and the hardware
| refreshed the screen by itself.
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| Raster graphics rely on cheap RAM, which came on us exponentially
| and rapidly obsoleted all sort of things...like the entire field
| of vector graphics hardware.
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| At CMU the CS department ran on many shared VAXen, and some of
| them had a raster frame buffer. They ran coax video cables from a
| VAX to multiple offices, with a monitor in each office, all
| displaying the same thing. You had to sign up for time on the
| frame buffer. I know this is unimaginable in 2021!
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| BTW, I am definitely going to hook up my Vectrex to an RPi. TIL,
| thank you!
| PaulHoule wrote:
| Today if you want to do vector art you might use a setup like
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| https://www.laserfocusworld.com/optics/article/16567973/prod...
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| but the most common laser graphic systems use the soundcard
| output from a PC which is bandwidth limited plus there is inertia
| on the mirror and instead of the nice straight lines of the
| Vectrex you get curves that don't really turn me on.
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